Difficult, beautiful, heart-breaking realities of the twenty-first century are urgently immediate in selections from . All of the poems speak to Marlatt’s poetics of place and of language as passage between distant or disparate human beings, and between human beings and the more-than-human world. The selections are framed by Susan Knutson’s deeply attentive critical introduction and by Marlatt’s “immediacies of writing,” a new lyrical essay investigating the act of writing. Closing with a walking meditation situated by her Buddhist practice, is both a “pocket Marlatt” and an introduction to one of the best poets of our time.